(Deep in Martin's mind.)

What am I, my trip to the moon screwed me over. What happened after that is all a blur. What happened before that is a blur. The, Moon... Luna she's the answer. But what will she say when she sees me, I remember something bad happened between us but I can't remember what. The leader of the X-od might know, Crystal's most likely dead, but you don't leave an army without a leader. What the hell do I do, Pangaea, and Rosetta have already been engaged, the world's gone to shit.

I watched as he tossed and turned in the bed. Nightmares of the same severity plagued myself as well. For years I would struggle to keep my warrior's instincts in check. And for the longest time I couldn't bear to see myself in the reflection glass. My black eyes, fangs. I would lay awake at night wondering what I was, only now I found insight on my true heritage. "We should wake him up, he looks bad." Kind Fluttershy was justifiably worried for the total stranger.

"Leave him be, I must speak with the Princesses."

"But he's in pain."

"He will be fine, it is just a matter of time." Zecora placed a potion bedside. "His wit sharp, his aim never miss, will be returned when he drinks this. But now to the answers that you seek, in his dreams we can take a peek."

"How?"

(Martin's mind.)

Luna stood alone on a mountain tears in her eyes."Why did he come back, what made him change," Martin climbed up and sat beside her.

"What happened to us?"

"The darkest day,"

"New Years Eve, I can remember something bad happened, and that I remember the war but I couldn't have been there, the chemicals, everything says I was asleep since 2192."

"You were indeed there, I remember that day, like it was last night. The X-od long since renamed and legends fabricated, as not to scare the populace. That day three warriors led the charge against the alliance, Crystalisk, Nightmare, and Deceit, before Nightmare could strike the final blow Deceit lived up to his name, and struck her down. But not before doing something I don't want to remember."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Deceit then proceeded to topple the entire regime of the enemy, before disappearing. Ever since that day something felt off." She brought a hoof to her chest. "He infected me, with a virus, an organic AI."

"I know Deceit, I remember, bits and pieces."

"Sister never put it together, but one look through the visor it all made sense, to me. I couldn't bear to tell her that the one she loved was the one who was second in command of the enemy forces."

"But I didn't kill you, I saved you, that has to count for something,"

"That doesn't matter, you betrayed her, Earth, me. we were friends, you chose to serve them."

"I chose to change sides when it counted."

I couldn't help but wonder, as I watched the Sun Princess finish her work, why she had called me to an audience. She set aside the last of the scrolls and I sat myself across from her, on a rather large pillow. "I wanted to talk in private, about where you found him."

"I do not know the particulars, Lady Dash would know where."

"I'm not interested in where, I want to know how."

"He was locked in combat with ten unidentified creatures, Dash called them ten foot tall Changelings, but he referred to them as mutated Minotaurs. He also seemed to be surprised by the mark on Madame Twilight's backside."

"I was afraid of this, he has more memories bubbling below the surface, Twilight holds the mark of something I've kept secret, the mark of Seven Six. One star surrounded by five, and a sixth which is awarded after becoming a true warrior. Little by little he is remembering what he was born to be."

"You know it isn't nice to talk about somepony behind their back." The creature from earlier appeared, his mismatched body dangling from the chandelier. "And while I love dishing dirt I forgot my shovel,"

"Discord, I've told you to knock hundreds of times." He rolled his eyes and tapped on the ceiling.

"There happy?"

"More or less, what brings you here?"

"I've got an idea, you know those starving foals in Saddle Arabia? What if I gave them magic beans?"

"What happened the last time?"

"Beanstalk, giant, golden eggs, blah, blah, blah, but this time, I was thinking more along the lines of cocoa beans, who doesn't love chocolate, they could grow overnight, pick them, sell them, buy food and ration it, in a few months they would have enough money to build new buildings to better house themselves and better hospitals to treat the sick. Sure there would be the fact that the trees could grow to be five-hundred feet high , and sure some buildings may be uprooted that's expected, but the benefits far outweigh the risks."

"I'll see what Aamir has to say about it. Don't start without the Okay, or it's strike one."

"Alright. Say I heard Prince Charming's back, that's true?"

"Yes, he is."

"That's great, I knew he wouldn't be gone forever, and I was right." He walked out the door with a devious grin.

"Discord?"

"Yes Celestia?"

"Gather everyone and bring them into the throne room."

"By everyone you mean the six, and any human I find, do you need them to bring anything? Scratch that, Elements. Be there in six to eight weeks."

"Let's go, It's time for the truth,"

Author's Note

Dear Princess Celestia

Discord stole the Elements!

Twilight Sparkle.